Missing Bookmarks after upgrade - Mozilla

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gone. I have 2 left out of about 50. My bookmark toolbar is empty and my
home page is also gone. I have searched through ...

Missing Bookmarks after upgrade

I just upgraded my FF to 1.5.0.1. After the upgrade 96% of my bookmarks are
gone. I have 2 left out of about 50. My bookmark toolbar is empty and my
home page is also gone. I have searched through my hard drive looking for
the old bookmarks but to no avail. Any thoughts on what might have happened
and if there is any chance of recovery? Odd thing is that all my saved
passwords are still there. Hmmmmm......

Dennis J. Blackburn

Re: Missing Bookmarks after upgrade

Dennis Blackburn wrote:
> I just upgraded my FF to 1.5.0.1. After the upgrade 96% of my bookmarks are
> gone. I have 2 left out of about 50. My bookmark toolbar is empty and my
> home page is also gone. I have searched through my hard drive looking for
> the old bookmarks but to no avail. Any thoughts on what might have happened
> and if there is any chance of recovery? Odd thing is that all my saved
> passwords are still there. Hmmmmm......
>
> Dennis J. Blackburn
>
>
First I suggest you back up your Profile because FF 1.5 has a rotating 5
day backup of your bookmarks saved in your profile.

Re: Missing Bookmarks after upgrade

"Irwin Greenwald" wrote in message
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> Dennis Blackburn wrote:
> > I just upgraded my FF to 1.5.0.1. After the upgrade 96% of my bookmarks
are
> > gone. I have 2 left out of about 50. My bookmark toolbar is empty and
my
> > home page is also gone. I have searched through my hard drive looking
for
> > the old bookmarks but to no avail. Any thoughts on what might have
happened
> > and if there is any chance of recovery? Odd thing is that all my saved
> > passwords are still there. Hmmmmm......
> >
> > Dennis J. Blackburn
> >
> >
> First I suggest you back up your Profile because FF 1.5 has a rotating 5
> day backup of your bookmarks saved in your profile.
>
> Second, I suggest you start FF in safe mode:
> Start>>All Programs>>Mozilla Firefox>>Start in Safe Mode
>
> Does this recover your Bookmarks?
>
>
> --
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>
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I looked for the profiles. The only profiles saved are new ones, since the
install.
Starting in safe mode didn't find the bookmarks. Fortunately my IE
favorites was
almost the same as my FF Bookmarks and I imported them. Now, just have to
remember what was on the bookmark tool bar. Thanks,
Dennis

Re: Missing Bookmarks after upgrade

Dennis Blackburn wrote:
> I just upgraded my FF to 1.5.0.1. After the upgrade 96% of my bookmarks are
> gone. I have 2 left out of about 50. My bookmark toolbar is empty and my
> home page is also gone. I have searched through my hard drive looking for
> the old bookmarks but to no avail. Any thoughts on what might have happened
> and if there is any chance of recovery? Odd thing is that all my saved
> passwords are still there.

On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually
%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.defaul t\, where xxxxxxxx is
a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and
Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and the
rest should be obvious.